Mageia: 2020-0373 Moderate: libproxy Stack Exhaustion Threat
mageia
September 27, 2020
url::recvline in url.cpp in libproxy 0.4.x through 0.4.15 allows a remote HTTP server to trigger uncontrolled recursion via a response composed of an infinite stream that lacks a n...
Summary
url::recvline in url.cpp in libproxy 0.4.x through 0.4.15 allows a remote
HTTP server to trigger uncontrolled recursion via a response composed of an
infinite stream that lacks a newline character. This leads to stack
exhaustion. (CVE-2020-25219)
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27302
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00012.html
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4514-1
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/CNID6EZVOVH7EZB7KFU2EON54CFDIVUR/
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-25219
Resolution
SRPMS
- 7/core/libproxy-0.4.15-4.1.mga7
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Publication date: 27 Sep 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0373.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-25219
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